The New York Blood Center – a terrific local resource for my neighbors, a pioneer in blood banking and resources for patients worldwide.

For those who’d consider bone marrow donation, the National Marrow Donor Program helps patients with leukemia and other conditions find matching bone marrow donors. The agency provides, also, financial assistance to some who can’t afford needed transplants.

Today, I learned that Robin Roberts, the GMA anchor who has been through breast cancer treatment and, subsequently, a bone marrow transplant for a rare blood disorder (MDS), has launched a public service campaign to encourage blood and marrow donors. Each of us can only do what we can. That she is alive and putting her name behind the drive, telling her audience what they can might to do to aid others, is heartening.

As someone who has benefited from the generosity of healthy donors, and the kindness of strangers among those, thank you!